Transitive offers a unique solution known as QuickTransit Legacy, for customers running extremely old Solaris/SPARC applications, where the age and maintainability of the hardware represents a significant IT risk. In fact, in the situation where a legacy Solaris/SPARC application is running on an environment that is beyond its “end of life” date and no longer supported, QuickTransit Legacy is possibly the only solution for effective migration of the application to new host hardware. Based on years of experience in assisting customers with innovative application migration solutions, Transitive’s QuickTransit Legacy has been fine-tuned to support workloads from very old SPARC-based systems running Solaris 2.5.1, Solaris 2.6 or above. By transporting these workloads to smaller, cheaper and faster industry-standard server platforms, QuickTransit helps customer eliminate the legacy hardware risk entirely, without disrupting the application itself or the users who depend on it.

With the successful migration of a Solaris/SPARC workload to QuickTransit Legacy on a new hardware platform, the original high-risk SPARC-based server can at last be shut down and removed from the datacenter, freeing up space and resources such as power and cooling. At the same time, the useful life of the Solaris/SPARC workload is extended – possibly by many more years – and its overall performance level is improved, all without the necessity to modify the original source code or binaries. In fact, in many cases, customers have lost or misplaced the original source code, or the application binaries that are running do not match up with the available source code libraries. Likewise, the developer of a commercially-developed legacy Solaris/SPARC application may no longer be in business or no longer markets the application, so that recompilation or porting is simply not an option. In such situations, QuickTransit Legacy is the only feasible solution for application re-hosting.

Just as with the QuickTransit Server product, QuickTransit Legacy can be deployed natively on an operating system (just like any other user-space application) or it can be installed within a virtual machine or partition within a virtualized environment. A virtualized installation delivers the added benefits of consolidation, so that many instances of QuickTransit Legacy can be deployed (along with their Solaris/SPARC workloads) inside virtual machines on a single physical host. Many QuickTransit Legacy customers find that the workloads from a large number of legacy SPARC-based servers can be consolidated onto a single industry-standard rack or blade with capacity to spare. This allows them the option to deploy multiple copies of the newly-virtualized Solaris/SPARC workloads to ensure high availability and improve overall disaster recovery capabilities. The virtualized Solaris/SPARC workloads also offer additional flexibility, since system administrators can easily adjust resources such as available memory, storage and virtual network bandwidth to optimize performance.

Clearly, QuickTransit Legacy offers a unique solution for the safe re-hosting of specific legacy applications that are running on platforms that represent significant hardware failure risk. By allowing these ageing Solaris/SPARC applications to run on safer, newer and fully-supported hardware platforms, QuickTransit Legacy provides such workloads with a new lease on life, and offers many more productive years of use. In fact, applications transported in this fashion can be subsequently migrated across many future generation of hardware platforms, along with QuickTransit Legacy.

QuickTransit Legacy is available with a standard license that allows deployment in either native or virtualized environments, or with a discounted virtual-only license for situations where it will only ever be run within a virtual machine or partition. For the standard QuickTransit Legacy license, pricing is based on the number of populated processor sockets in the server. For the QuickTransit Legacy virtual-only license, pricing is based on the number of virtual CPUs assigned to a virtual machine.

QuickTransit Legacy can be purchased directly from the Transitive Sales team or from Transitive global network of reseller partners.